California Condor hatches in Big Sur

Pacific Grove, CA – PACIFIC GROVE, CA (2007-04-10) Efforts to restore the Endangered California Condor hit a milestone Monday (4/9/2007). A condor chick hatched in the wild for the first time in more than a hundred years in Central California. A pair of condors released in Big Sur's remote Ventana Wilderness laid a fertile egg in February. Biologists with the Ventana Wildlife Society removed that egg to hatch at the Los Angeles Zoo. This weekend, wildlife biologist Joe Burnett brought back a hatching egg to the pair's nest high in a cliff cave. KAZU's Rachael McDonald spoke with Burnett after he visited the nest Monday afternoon.